Thought provoking
Where does gravity come from? Newton didn't know. So he said, God does it.
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Berkeley summed up this strange view in Latin as ‘Esse est percipi’ – to be (or exist) is to be perceived. So the fridge light can't be on, and the tree can't make a noise when there is no mind there to experience them. That might seem the obvious conclusion to draw from Berkeley's immaterialism. But Berkeley didn't think that objects were
... See moreNigel Warburton • A Little History of Philosophy (Little Histories)
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
erin glasstwitter.comDescartes thought that
what it means for something
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to physically exist is
for it to take up space. Philosophy students may
remember the term 'Res Extensa.'
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That's Latin for 'extended stuff.' It's Descartes' term for physical matter.
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And so because existence
means taking up space, that means the universe must be full.
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There is no empty space... See more
what it means for something
9:02
to physically exist is
for it to take up space. Philosophy students may
remember the term 'Res Extensa.'
9:10
That's Latin for 'extended stuff.' It's Descartes' term for physical matter.
9:16
And so because existence
means taking up space, that means the universe must be full.
9:25
There is no empty space... See more
The Problem with Video Essays
Philosophy Tube. Descartes.
Empty space means the freedom to act!
The Problem with Video Essays
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"While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?"
Writer Thoreau warned of brain rot in 1854. Now it's the Oxford Word of 2024
Henry David Thoreau
the object of perception cannot be separated from the mind that perceives it.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche • In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
- There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first, the Orwellian culture becomes a prison. In the second, the Huxleyan culture becomes a burlesque.
Notes On Amusing Ourselves To Death
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